Crater

Crater may refer to:

Landforms

• Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
• Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surface
  • Subsidence crater, a depression from an underground (usually nuclear) explosion
• Pit crater, a crater that forms through sinking of the surface and not as a vent for lava
• Volcanic crater, a roughly circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity
  • Caldera, a large cauldron-like depression formed following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir
  • Maar, a type of volcanic crate caused by a phreatic eruption or explosion
  • Volcanic crater lake, including a list of lakes that formed in a volcanic or impact crater

Music

• Crater (Daniel Menche and Mamiffer album), 2016
• Crater (Fission album), 2004

Places

• Crati or Crater, a river of southern Italy
• Crater, California, U.S.
• Crater (Aden), a district of the Aden Governorate, Yemen

Other uses

• Crater (constellation)
• The Crater (novel) an 1847 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• Joseph F. Crater (fl. 1889–1930), New York judge who disappeared in 1930

See also

• Crater lake (disambiguation)
• Cratering (disambiguation)
• Krater, a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water (the original meaning)
• Machtesh, a crater-like formation created by erosion